Sequence-Coded Coherent Laser Range-Finder with Hundreds of Photons Sensitivity
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Shemer, Keren; Bashan, Gil; Diamandi, H. Hagai; Lodnon, Yosef; Charni, Alon; Raanan, Tzur; Israelashvili, Yochai; Cohen, Itzik; Levanon, Nadav; Zadok, Avi
- Source
- 2019 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2019 Asia. :1-3 Nov, 2019
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
- Language
Coherent detection of a sequence coded laser range finder is demonstrated over fiber. The shot noise limited receiver sensitivity reaches 800 photons, and 0.002 photons per bit. Signals of 250 femto-Watt power are successfully compressed.